sarla mudgal vs union of india

• A Precise Cut

The book reviews landmark cases such as the 1966 Sastri Yagnapurushdasji vs Muldas Bhundardas, where the apex court defined Hinduism as a way of life; the Shirur Mutt case where the test for the essential practices of religion that qualified for constitutional protection was first proposed; the Aruna Roy vs Union of India ruling where the court made a distinction between religious instruction and religious education; the TMA Pai and other cases on the rights of minority educational institutions; the Stanislaus case that denied constitutional protection to a right to propagate; the Jasani case where courts enforced disincentives for converting out of Hinduism, and the Shah Bano and Sarla Mudgal cases where the court linked the uniform civil code with national unity, and the Hindutva judg...

• Financial Express; New Delhi
• November 23, 2010

• 'Law Needed to Stop Men From Converting for Bigamy' [India]

... the practice by its order in the case of Sarla Mudgal vs Union of India in 1995. The ruling was r...

• Times of India, The
• October 13, 2009

• Courtroom Drama ; Landmark Judicial Decisions Changed the Constitution As Well As Everyday Life. Their Impact Still Echoes.

Champakam Dorairajan Vs State of Madras 1951 Well before Arjun Singh, this case concerning admissions of backward classes to educational institutions led B.R. Ambedkar, then the law minister, to pilot the first-ever amendment to the Constitution.

...Madhav Jiwaji Rao Scindia Vs Union of India 1970. The Supreme Court rejected a 1970 p...Sarla Mudgal Vs Union of India 1995. The Supreme Court h...

• India Today
• June 27, 2006